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ProDate DV, Automatic Duck
ProDate DV by Automatic Duck allows Final Cut Pro users to use a filter to access the date and time information recorded as metadata of a DV file.
Interviews
Stu Maschwitz: DV Rebel (part 1)
15/02/2010
Rick Young
Stu Maschwitzis a highly regarded director, writer and visual effects artist based in San Francisco. He has worked as a senior visual effects supervisor on many films. He previously worked at Industrial Light and Magic and also co-founded a company known as The Orphanage. In 2007 he authored the book The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap. In 2008 he became software director of Red Giant software
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2009 (parts 3 & 4)
02/01/2010
Rick Young
Featuring: Claudio von Planta - War Cameraman/Journalist; Jonathan Walls- Co-Director/Editor; Lenny Lipton - Independent Filmmaker; Michael Wohl - original Final Cut Pro Development Team; Vaughan Smith - War Cameraman/Journalist; Walter Murch - Feature Film Editor; Tom Ohanian - Founding team Avid Technology; Jerry Hofmann - Digital Video Pioneer; Ramy Katrib - CEO and Founder, DigitalFilm Tree; The Ken Stone Sessions (part 1).
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2009 (parts 1 and 2)
28/12/2009
Rick Young
Featuring: Tom Robotham - inventor of Blender light, Noah Kadner - digital video expert; Brian Valente - Redrock Micro; Bob Daniels - CDIA; John Rule - Rule Broadcast; M Dot Strange - filmmaker; Larry Jordan - 2-Pop Founder; Anthony Artis - filmmaker; Arthur C. Smith III - filmmaker; Glenn Kennel - Arriflex.
H.264 - the modern codec for distribution
23/11/2009
Rick Young
Wayne Andrews, Mac Product Manager from Matrox, talks in-depth about the importance of H.264 as a distribution codec and how Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with superior speed to the technology used by Apple in the creation of H.264 files.
Blackmagic buys da Vinci
14/09/2009
Rick Young
Blackmagic Design has announced the purchase of all assets of DaVinci Systems LLC. This purchase means Blackmagic Design will now offer DaVinci Resolve DI color correction systems and DaVinci Revival film restoration products for sale worldwide. Since 1984 DaVinci have been, and continue to be, the standard in post production. The acquisition propels Blackmagic to the highest echelons of the production world.
IBC SuperMeet Preview - Dan Berube and Michael Horton
06/09/2009
Rick Young
The agenda is now set for the Second Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet to be held Sunday, 13 September 2009 at The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Dam Square, the heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Doors open at 16:30 with an FCP Showcase with 26 exhibitors; Presentations begin at 19:00 and continue until 23:30. Headlining the event is Final Cut Pro co-creator Michael Wohl.
Wayne Andrews, Mac Product Manager, Matrox
06/07/2009
Rick Young
Wayne Andrews from Matrox runs through the latest encoding technology, including accelerated H.264 encoding for Mac towers and Mac laptops with Express 34 slot. Matrox CompressHD features the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with quickly and system resources are free for other tasks.
Shifting Paradigms - interview with Jerry Hofmann
05/05/2009
Rick Young
Jerry Hofmann is a veteran of the video world, having first worked with black and white 2 inch Quad, and then moving onto Umatic in the 1970's. Jerry has witnessed every major shift in technology from film, tape, analogue, digital, linear, non-linear, RED, Avid, Final Cut Pro and more... In this interview Jerry talks about what he thinks is hot at NAB 2009 and where the technology may take us. During his 32 year professional show business career, Jerry has become an award winning theatrical actor, TV and film editor, writer, director and producer. He has produced hundreds of TV Commercials, industrial films, as well as broadcast television shows.
Wayne Andrews explains new features for MXO2 and details of the new rack-mounted model
30/03/2009
Rick Young
the latest release 1.3 of the software for the Matrox MXO2 provides several new features: Scaling on the input for capture; ProRes 422 720p capture on a MacBook Pro; Apple Xserve support. Also a look at the new rack-mounted version of the MXO2
Noise Industries FxFactory Pro
09/03/2009
Rick Young
Niclas Bahn, Business Development, Noise Industries, describes the company philosophy. "We're succeeding in revolutionising the plug-in business and bringing the technology to editors and also to other plug-in developers to really bring innovative solutions to Final Cut and After Effects users out there." In this interview Niclas Bahn, Business Development is featured along with Gabriele de Simone - Product Engineering and Design, Noise Industries. With 6 leading partners, and over 300 effects available, Noise Industries has achieved their goal of changing the way the plug-in world operates.
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2008
22/12/2008
Rick Young
10 of the best of the MacVideo interviews featured throughout 2008. This two part special includes interviews with Walter Murch, Ken Stone, Ramy Katrib, Garrett Brown and more. These are edited versions of the original interviews, taken from the MacVideo archive. Hear some of the most influential people in the world of digital video tell their stories.
Best of MacVideo Interviews 2008 (part 2)
21/12/2008
Rick Young
Part two of this special includes interviews with Richard Marx, Graeme Nattress, Garrett Brown and more. These are edited versions of the original interviews, taken from the MacVideo archive. Hear some of the most influential people in the world of digital video tell their stories.
Interview with Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven
07/11/2008
Rick Young
In November 2004 Digital Heaven introduced Multicam Lite. This was a breakthrough product as it provided the first true Multicam solution for Final Cut Pro, well before Multicam was integrated as part of Final Cut Pro 5. In this interview, Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven, talks about the history of the company, the products on offer, their latest application - Loader, and what we have to look forward to next from Digital Heaven.
Abobe Interviews: Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects and Simon Hayhurst, Sr. Director, Product Management, Dynamic Media
26/09/2008
Rick Young
Hear direct from the people at Abobe what the release of CS4 means for video editors. When CS3 was released this brought Abobe back to the Mac Platform for video editing. Now with CS4 Adobe takes another swipe at the market with new tools, new features, and new ways of doing things.
Interview with Roger Maybon, G-Technology
12/09/2008
Rick Young
G-Technology are well know for producing quality drives which are both reliable and capable of sustained levels of data transfer needed for high end video production. In this interview Roger Maybon talks about new products and developments for G-Tech for the the first half of 2008.
Interview with Giles Baker, Adobe
12/09/2008
Rick Young
Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager Adobe, talks about some of the key announcements made by Adobe in the first half of 2008 and comments on technologies Adobe has been working on which are yet to be integrated into the Adobe product-line.
Live to Los Angeles and Boston - Michael Horton, LAFCPUG, Dan Berube, Boston FCPUG
22/08/2008
Rick Young
This week we cross live to Los Angeles and Boston to speak to the key players who organise the FCPUG Supermeet each year, for NAB, Macworld and now IBC. In this interview Michael Horton and Dan Berube talk about what has motivated them to bring the Supermeet to Europe and what to expect on the night of the 14th September in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
AJA's Jon Thorn talks about IO HD and working with ProRes HD
11/07/2008
Rick Young
The AJA IO HD was announced at NAB 2007 and is designed to do real-time conversions of source video in real-time to Apple’s ProRes HD codec. In this interview, Jon Thorn, Product Manager for Macintosh Desktop Products, AJA Video Systems, talks about the benefits of using ProRes, the strengths this codec offers, and what makes the IO box unique.
Interview with Graeme Nattress (part 2) Nattress Filters
04/07/2008
Rick Young
The art of plug-in creation from one of key players who has produced many set of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Interview with David Helmly, Senior Business Development Manager, Video, Adobe Systems Inc., USA
20/06/2008
Rick Young
Adobe Premiere returned to the Mac in spectacular style in 2007. The program which was once the only affordable alternative for independents saw the demise on the Mac platform in 2003. However, when Apple moved to Intel chips Adobe ported what had become a PC only program back to the Mac. This is the story of what happened.
